The site appeared to be inundated with users trying to check their voter registration status, find their polling place, and review a sample ballot.

While officials said the site was not down, the site was taking a long time to load on users’ screens–or not loading at all. Officials said the site was back up and running on Tuesday afternoon. However, the site was still running very slow.

A reporter at cbschicago.com got this message when he tried to access the site around 6:45 a.m.: The system cannot communicate with the external server ( chicagoelections.com ). The Internet server may be busy, may be permanently down, or may be unreachable because of network problems.

The State Board Of Elections has created a page to help voters in Chicago find their polling place. You can click here to access that page. That page is working, but users may experience delays in accessing the data.

Tuesday’s election is the first since the once-a-decade redistricting shifted 20 percent of registered voters’ addresses into a different precinct.

Acknowledging his state has “come under the harsh glare of criticism” over a controversial new “religious freedom” law, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said he wants state lawmakers to pass new legislation that makes clear businesses cannot discriminate against gay and lesbian couples.

Police said the robbers used a prop in at least two holdups in the Fuller Park neighborhood. They set up a road construction barrel in the street, and when a motorist gets out of his or her car to move it aside, the robbers pounce.

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